With People Quotes

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.

I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

Ethics is for people with full bellies.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.

I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.